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Natural Disasters and Emergency Planning

In five pages natural disasters are examined within the context of business strategies and emergency planning measures. Five sour...

April 2001 Plane Incident in China

U.S. should take full responsibility for the incident (PG). In the end, the hostages were released, but it was an uneasy time for...

Cities, Towns, and Emergency Services

a victim whereas a community member who is friends with him, will make that extra effort. Bruegman (1997) contends that while peop...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Incident Debriefing

actually felt the building shake, for example, are at the most risk for the disorder (2001). At the same time, one psychologist cl...

ER Application of the Self Care Deficit Theory Developed by Dorothea Orem

Emergency rooms are, at least in many cases, the primary health care provider to the underinsured and uninsured patient (Isenstein...

New Jersey's Health Care Delivery System and Its Problems

governor should strive to at least make a dent in the problem in the next four years. It seems that the most pertinent problems ar...

Medical Ethics (Case Study Analysis)

see two broken femurs without any explanation whatsoever. Also, in the hospital, no one is asking why the child may have broken bo...

Personal Emergency Response Systems/Patient Outcomes

of four (Bernstein, 2000). Its use also reduces hospitalizations by 59 percent and yields a benefit to cost ratio of seven to one,...

NATIONAL RESPONSE FRAMEWORK AND EMERGENCY SUPPORT FUNCTIONS

step in and provide more support (National Response Framework, 2009). The Framework itself is an 81-page booklet describing everyt...

Pharmacists Ethics

senior citizens (Editors, 2006). An overwhelming majority of more than 800 pharmacists surveyed said that it was their responsibil...

Plan B/Political Issues & Emergency Contraception

a birth control method is believed to have failed (Chung-Park, 2008). There are several types of EC available in the US, but the m...

NP role in EDs/Study Article Critique

and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...

Study Proposal/Will Placing an NP in EDs Help Overcrowding?

concerns the how NP practice has been implemented in countries other than the US. The majority of research articles available in v...

History Of Educational Psychology - Emergence Of Cognitive Psychology

Both Plato and Aristotle discussed learning and education, the need for different types of education, the effects of the arts on l...

Emergency Response and Fire Prevention Plan

any conditions including total darkness or thick smoke. This requires that the signs have their own backup power systems that wil...

California’s Emergency Response Plan

the state from the federal level (OES mission statement, 2007). In order to accomplish this mission, OES uses various programs a...

California: Emergency Response by Law Enforcement at State and Federal Levels

(Ghilarducci and Guerin, 1999). SEMS incorporates the following: the "Incident Command System," which is the "field level" respo...

SEMS Management Function

be followed (Office of Emergency Services, 2007). That list has three major phases that beings with activation, moving on to the a...

ANALYSIS OF FLORIDA'S EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN

The above is similar to any comprehensive emergency plan that might be found in any other state. But Florida also introduces a haz...

Implementing Six Sigma at the Academic Medical Hospital

manner. This is an important time for AMH as the system can be rolled into other departments. 2. Current Issues and Opportunities...

Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services

Employing some 8,000 people, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and...

Emergency Management: Productivity and Goal Setting

a disaster before it has a chance to occur. This isnt always possible as cases of natural disaster (e.g. Hurricane Katrina) are im...

Earthquakes A Catastrophic Emergency

The USGS provides a list of the most destructive earthquakes that have ever been recorded. The most recent earthquakes...

A Comparison of the Writings of Rachel Carson and Al Gore

Effecting changes in environmental policies and the types of human behavior and mindsets that cause adverse...

Article Summary/Veenema (2008)

The American Red Cross, after an extensive peer review of the program, which was conducted in 2006, adopted Veenemas curriculum as...

Aggressive Behaviors Against Nurses

essential to being able to maintain the necessary nursing workforce and ensuring the delivery of care. These researchers maintain...

INTERDISCIPLINARY RELATIONSHIPS AND HEALTH CARE

EDs x-rays or MRIs onto the priority list for whatever reason. The result is a lot of misunderstanding between the departments: ED...

Technology Improves Emergency Rooms

their resources and materials but emergency rooms do not seem to be able to keep track of equipment or even patients. One issue we...

Emergency Department Nursing/Informatics

to undertake shortcuts. Factors such as the urgent care required by ED patients and the fact that many patients are unable to comm...

The Cost Consequences of the New York Ban on Nurse Overtime

for example, a terrorist attack. iii. Where a nurse is involved in a ongoing medical or surgical procedure which takes the hours i...